This new resource, courtesy of the executive search consultants across Witt/Kieffer and its WK Advisors division, provides best practices for career-minded leaders. The dozen entries offer suggestions for navigating both the predictable and unanticipated challenges.

Our London-based international affiliate is now official, furthering our reach and expertise around the globe. The move allows us to go where our clients go – in healthcare, education, academic medicine, and the life sciences – wherever their executive talent needs may exist. Visit wittkiefferinternational.com and read the recent press release to learn more.

Thought Leadership

Despite the difficulty of being the servant leader of many masters, the discomfort of living in a fish bowl, and the stress of financial and other challenges, dedicated, accomplished people still seek the college presidency, writes senior partner Dennis Barden in this book excerpt.

What makes a leader? For Dennis Pullin, it’s about passion and authenticity. With Dr. David Harlan, the military taught invaluable lessons. For Dr. Karla Hughes, three mentors made the difference. We offer profiles of each as part of our ongoing series of Leader Profiles.

Recruiting Trends

What are millennial leaders thinking? In healthcare, they are prioritizing career growth and new opportunities much more than salary or job title, according to our recent survey report, based on input from more than one hundred healthcare executives age 40 and under. The lesson for organizations: listen, learn, and adapt. In terms of truly understanding the impact of millennial executives, we’re just scratching the surface, writes CEO Andrew Chastain in Chief Executive Magazine.

Depending on their ability to sell their organization to prospective CEOs and executives, trustees are often the difference makers, write Beth Nelson and Jim King. Board members must sell themselves as being competent, committed and having a vision for the future.